Crossing the stars, I live-streamed my cultivation in kindergarten

Chapter 243 The Female Official Commits Suicide
A personal female official?

Natalia's sweet smile froze.

That damned Hilcher! She, a princess of the sea tribe, has lowered herself to fawn over him, and he actually cares about the whereabouts of a mere personal maid?

Could it be that he's taken a fancy to that lowly female mermaid?

Natalia turned her pleading gaze to the Mermaid King.

As the one seeking help, Perez pretended not to see it and lowered his head to drink his tea.

"The lady-in-waiting was punished by being sent back to the forbidden area of ​​her clan to reflect on her mistakes for a hundred years because she made a mistake." As she said this, Natalia had a pitiful expression on her face, and her eyes were slightly red.

She sneered inwardly.

A hundred years of reflection in the forbidden area for Hui people? A pawn that has lost its usefulness naturally has no reason to exist.

Soon, her former personal maid will feel immense guilt for causing the death of the sea tribe's little princess and bringing negative consequences to the eldest princess, herself. In the end, on the return journey, she will voluntarily jump off the spaceship in the vast interstellar space and commit suicide.

In short, "the dead have no way to prove it."

In this way, the puppet worms on the female official's body would not be discovered.

Hilcher subtly turned his head away, looking elsewhere. "Excuse my intrusion, but what wrong has your personal lady-in-waiting committed?"

Natalia's face turned slightly pale from his persistent questioning.

That damned Hilcher, could he really be blind enough to fall for that female mermaid?

What kind of taste, what kind of aesthetics, what kind of quirks? Why would they abandon a perfectly good sea princess and instead care about a lowly female mermaid?!

"Lady, because of me, you couldn't think straight and hurt your younger sister. It's all because of me. Lady, you felt that Father was too good to your younger sister, so you..." She lowered her posture to a minimum, and sobs echoed in the study.

“Your sister?” Hilcher asked in surprise.

He remembered that the sea tribe only had one princess at the moment, and that was Princess Natalia standing in front of him.

Having just been awakened from his slumber by the tribulation of lightning, Hilcher has experienced a series of events, including being baptized by heavenly lightning, advancing in rank, feeding the little fat shark, holding an important family meeting, and the disappearance of the little fat shark. He is unaware that the sea tribe has gained another little princess.

“My father picked up my little sister from outside,” Natalia said timidly, glancing at the Mermaid King. “My father dotes on her, and he goes to great lengths to obtain all sorts of treasures for her. He even announced to the entire galaxy that she was the little princess of the sea tribe. My lady-in-waiting couldn’t stand how much my father doted on my sister, and she stood up for me, which led her to do something wrong in a moment of anger…”

Natalia's every word was deliberately vague and avoided the main point.

"Enough!" Perez slammed down his teacup. "Didn't I say? Even with a younger sister, you are still the noble princess of my sea tribe. What is yours will be yours, and what happened before will remain so in the future."

A tear slowly rolled down Natalia's cheek. "Father, I love my sister very much too. But she doesn't seem to like me much. She doesn't want to talk to me at all, and she won't let me get close. She'd rather have Grandpa Esen with her than talk to me..."

Perez softened his tone slightly, “Your sister is still young. She has just returned to the tribe and is not very close to you yet. It’s natural that you two sisters are not close at first. But once your relationship improves, she will naturally become closer to you.”

“Yes, I know, Father. Once my sister is found, I will apologize to her properly and try to build a better relationship with her.” Natalia’s innocent smile returned. “Even if my sister hits or scolds me, I will endure it. She is still young, and it’s understandable that she can be a little willful. As her older sister, I should be tolerant of her little quirks.”

A chubby little boy who hits, curses, and throws tantrums?
Perez imagined his chubby little boy throwing a tantrum, hitting and yelling at people... What to do? Even in that spoiled state, he found him adorable.

If she were to slap his face with those soft, chubby little hands, she wondered if it would make him even angrier? Would she be angry that his skin was so thick, hurting her little paws?

If it were an insult, what would it be? That chubby little guy only cares about food and toys, so he probably only knows two or three insults over and over again.

Big bad guy? Big bad monster? Big idiot?
When they're scolding, they'll probably speak in a mumbled, childish voice, and they might even be holding a delicious treat while they're scolding.

Perez glanced at Natalia out of the corner of his eye and realized that his thoughts had wandered off course.

However, based on what he just thought, it seems, maybe, probably, he has a slight preference for the chubby little one.

I remember him telling Natalia that he would treat everyone equally...

His lips suddenly became incredibly dry, and as if to convince himself, he began to explain, "Your sister is still young and frail, so I've been more attentive to her, not spoiling her. Father treats you and her the same."

Why does it sound like you're trying to cover something up?
Perez cursed himself inwardly, "Natalia, if your sister hits you, Father will definitely not stand idly by, and scolding won't help."

Hilcher watched coldly as the mermaid princess's brilliant performance, which lasted only a few minutes, successfully disarmed the merman king, filling him with guilt and tenderness.

It was at this moment that Perez received a message: Princess Natalia's personal maidservant had opened the hatch and jumped off the spaceship while being escorted back to her homeland; she had disappeared and was presumed dead.

Along with the message came the female official's last will and testament.

The head of the palace guards, who was always cautious, was responsible for escorting her back. If it was suspected to be death, then it was confirmed to be death.

Moreover, a frail female mermaid exposed to interstellar space without any protection would have no chance of survival.

He remained silent for a long time before speaking with difficulty: "Natalia, your personal maid had an accident on the way back."

Natalia froze, tears streaming down her face like a burst dam: "Sister Lady, she...she..."

“Well, she jumped off the return spaceship on her own, maybe…” Perez didn’t want to continue.

"Waaah, how could this be? Father, will I never see my lady-in-waiting again? She's been by my side since I was little, I can't bear to part with her." Natalia covered her face and cried.

The Mermaid King couldn't help but think of Natalia when she was just born. Back then, his uncle and father were still alive, and he stood in front of his little cousin's rocking chair, vowing to protect her for the rest of his life.

"If it weren't for me, the lady-in-waiting wouldn't have done such a thing to Xixi..."

The Mermaid King looked at Natalia in front of him, heartbroken over the loss of his female official who was more than family to him. At this moment, he could no longer remember the consensus he had reached with Hilcher or the matter of blaming Natalia for being immature. All he felt now was heartache.

However, while he couldn't remember, someone else certainly hadn't.

xixi?

Hilcher couldn't hear what the sea princess said next. He rudely interrupted her, his tone icy, "I've always heard you address that lady-in-waiting as 'Lady-in-waiting,' but may I ask what her name is?"

"Surname, full name?" Natalia's sobbing paused.